Nvidia A5000 vs Nvidia Quadro RTX 6000

The A5000 is newer and has 14% more bandwidth, with the same 24 GB of memory. The Quadro RTX 6000 is cheaper right now.

At a glance

Memory

Identical

A5000: 24 GB

Quadro RTX 6000: 24 GB

Memory bandwidth

14% higher on A5000

A5000: 768 GB/s

Quadro RTX 6000: 672 GB/s

Cheapest on-demand

42% cheaper on Quadro RTX 6000

A5000: $0.23 /GPU/hr

Quadro RTX 6000: $0.13 /GPU/hr

Price comparison

Median price per GPU per hour by billing type, with the cheapest listing under it.

Billing	A5000	Quadro RTX 6000
On-demand	$1.24 /GPU/hr from $0.23	-- /GPU/hr from $0.13
Reserved	$0.48 /GPU/hr from $0.19 (6 mo)	-- /GPU/hr from $0.12 (12 mo)
Spot	-- /GPU/hr from $0.09	-- /GPU/hr from $0.11

Heads up: A provider's own page may quote a different figure, for example on tax, region or a promotion. A monthly-only plan shows a derived hourly rate. Medians are across providers, one vote each, so a large catalog does not outweigh a small one. No median for spot on the A5000 and on-demand, reserved and spot on the Quadro RTX 6000: we only show one when at least 3 providers list the GPU on that billing type. Verify before provisioning. More on how we price.

Price history

A5000 vs Quadro RTX 6000 price history

Weekly median on-demand price per GPU per hour

Last 12 months

Aggregating historical prices...

Specs comparison

Spec	A5000	Quadro RTX 6000	Difference
Memory
Capacity	24 GB GDDR6	24 GB GDDR6	Identical
Bandwidth	768 GB/s	672 GB/s	14% higher on A5000
Bus width	384-bit	384-bit	Identical
Compute · dense
FP16 / BF16	111.1 TFLOPS	130.5 TFLOPS	17% higher on Quadro RTX 6000
INT8		261 TOPS
FP32	27.8 TFLOPS	16.3 TFLOPS	71% higher on A5000
Platform
Interconnect	NVLink 112 GB/s	NVLink 100 GB/s	12% higher on A5000
Board power	230 W	295 W	28% higher on Quadro RTX 6000
Released	Q2 2021	Q3 2018	3 years newer on A5000
Precision
Supported formats	FP16BF16TF32FP32INT4INT8	FP16FP32INT4INT8

Compute: Vendor peak figures, dense and per GPU. Not measured throughput.

Source: A5000 datasheet and Quadro RTX 6000 datasheet.

Where to rent them

Providers that rent these GPUs, with each one's cheapest rate. Providers that rent both are listed first.

Provider	A5000	Quadro RTX 6000
Vast.ai USA	$0.23 /GPU/hr On-demand	$0.13 /GPU/hr On-demand
Salad Distributed	$0.25 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Runpod USA	$0.27 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Sesterce France	$1.56 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Runcrate USA	$1.85 /GPU/hr On-demand PCIe	--
Exoscale Switzerland	$1.14 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Paperspace USA	$1.38 /GPU/hr On-demand	--
Database Mart USA	$0.25 /GPU/hr Reserved	--
Akamai Cloud USA	--	$1.50 /GPU/hr On-demand
Lambda Labs USA	--	$0.69 /GPU/hr On-demand